Photo of the Day

Reflecting on La Latina

La Latina is great by day or night, week or weekend. Fill your days with cafés, your nights with trendy clubs, your weeks with quiet streets and your weekend with the Rastro, the biggest flea market the world has ever seen. Photo by Quico López .

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Preparing for the Shopping Masses

Merchants busily prepare as the Triball area converts itself from near-ghetto to alternative shopping area. See story for details.

art - Painting of Otto Dix

The Camera and the Canvas

When "Video killed the radio star" this wasn’t the first instance of carnage in the world of art. New mediums and technologies always...

Art in Madrid - Architectural Photography

Architectural Photography: Gabriele Basilico "Intercity"

Collectively we have officially become city slickers. The shift in the bulk of the world’s population from rural to...

Madrid in Film History

Madrid in Film History - Skip the Exhibit but Read this List

According to Así es Madrid…en el cine, an exhibition of Madrid in film, around 300 films have been shot in Madrid so far. Not as impressive as New York, London or Paris, they say...

photography - Luis Ramon Marin

Photojournalism Exhibit of Madrid - Final days

Warning! The arts guides posted the wrong closing date for this event. Apologize to anyone who tried to go. We tried to go twice before we figured it out.

Here’s one not to miss. The images of photojournalist Luis Ramon Marin are on exhibit until Monday the 21st of January. The best news is that you don’t have to go out of your...

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Madrid Photojournalism: Luis Ramón Marín

The work of Luis Ramón Marín is on Exhibit until the 21st of January. See review for details.

review of December

While You were Out...

Welcome back! Madrid’s international population dipped a bit during December as everyone flew here or there to do this or that. We truly hope your livers and your bank accounts survived the season. Ours did - more or less. Come on, what’s a bit of sclerosis and debt, it’s the f%&king holidays! Anyway, the elves at MAP were busy the whole while happily writing away. Here is a quick update. Spanish current events were...

exhibit - photojournalism

Life after Land Mines

With the current anti-land-mine budget, it would take as many as 1,000 years to dismantle the millions of land mines planted across the world. This is just one of the facts that lodges itself in your mind as you visit the “Vidas Minadas” exposition at the Instituto Cervantes. The exhibit, covering the horror of land mines throughout the world, is based on the book of the same title. This is the latest contibution by the...

Feature - Julien Charlon on Art, Violence and Activism

Art Activist Julien Charlon - The MAP Interview

Photographer and “collaborative art project organiser” extraordinaire, Julien Charlon, is at it again! After the publication of his successful book of photography last year, Mundolavapiés, he is fiendishly organising an...

Photo of the Day

The Art of Violence in Lavapies

From sex toy shops and anarchist cafes to locutorios and Churrerias, you'll find it all in Lavapiés. And Julien Charlon, the man who has photo-documented the neighborhood on an almost microscopic level, is plotting his new project. This time the focus will be none other than murder. See today's interview.

Art - Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol - Artistic or Autistic?

Due to his soup-can choice of subject matter and bizarre persona, the perennial question with Warhol is “Was he taking the piss?” It is, after all, a valid question for a man who actually urinated on an entire series of canvasses to achieve certain color effects...

politics/history - Photography exhibit

An Entire War Stuffed into a Suitcase

How we see the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) today is greatly influenced by a suitcase, a Leica and 36 years of patience. Centro Cultural Conde Duque has organised an exhibit on Agustí Centelles, photographer of cabarets, nightlife and ad campaigns...

art - Mad is Mad

The Art of Irony - Mad is Mad's Autumn Show

“Irony” was the unofficial theme of the evening at the Mad is Mad's Autumn Collective Show. Upon entering one was greeted by a series of Disney drawings gone pornographic: elaborate recreations of these world-famous characters – their heads all replaced with giant phalluses (by Jorge Gonzalez). This set the tone and, interestingly enough...

art and community - a Photo walk with David Sifry

Photowalk - Unleashing Scores of Photographers on the City

When you browse your photo collection, are you disappointed that you don't have a better representation of the city you live in every day? It happens easily enough: when we travel...

art - neighborhood-wide murder mystery

Lavapiés - Site of Massive Murder Mystery Game?

So yesterday I promised we would track down French photographer, Julien Charlon, and we did. As we mentioned we are fans of Julien’s last multi-media book. This project, bound in a bright...

art - photography

Lavapiés - Site of Gang Violence or Vibrant Community?

Last Thursday, November 1, was a typical night in the barrio of Lavapiés. People stood anxiously outside the metro waiting on friends, groups gathered in the neighborhood’s varied restaurants to sample some...

Photography - the 20th century

The Círculo de Bellas Artes Tackles the Entire 20th Century and Wins! (More or Less)

I saw that the Círculo de Bellas Artes was putting on an exhibit called Leading Moments: Photography in the 20th Century and I thought: "All of the 20th century?" An ambitious goal to be sure, but an...

art - photography

Isabel Muñoz - The Best of Brain and Braun

Isabel Muñoz is one of the most important and exciting figures in Spanish photography today. She is renowned for using one of the most difficult photo developing techniques, platinotype, using platinum paper to produce superior quality B&W photographs. Her work is a treat for the...

Madrid Museums - La Reina Sofia

The Reina Sofia - The Epicenter of Modern Art

Nestled amidst the bustling city of Madrid is that sanctuary of modern art known as La Reina Sofia. The museum is host to a truly wide-ranging permanent collection as well as visiting exhibits from around the world. Their most notable collections include that of Picasso, especially the renowned...

Markets - The Rastro

The Bloody History of the Rastro

The Rastro, Madrid’s largest outdoor market can only be described as “a universe unto itself”. With origins that stretch back nearly five centuries, one can only imagine the plentitude of traditions surrounding this massive Sunday event...

Photography

The Personal is the Political: HIV Sufferers in Africa and Central America

I’m an absolute sucker for real-life photography. But I almost feel guilty going to ‘look at’ someone’s private life a photographer is publicly exhibiting. However, when it’s an awareness or fund raising exercise done in conjunction with a charity organization, it’s valid; Omar Ayyashi’s exhibition of people with HIV in Mozambique and Honduras is a perfect example.

From our former site

Sebastiao Salgado - Photography of Africa

To many people Sebastiao Salgado is photography...

From our former site

Muta Matadero x NOPHOTO

Muta Matadero x NOPHOTO, using the elements of past and present photographs and film, has created a world within a world, a photo exposition that seems to reflect in upon itself and then to expand out to the city that surrounds ...